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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee

While many know Poe for his macabre and Gothic style of writings, like The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum, he also wrote poetry in much the same style. Here, the last poem he ever wrote.

2 comments:

I would have assumed that a library could correctly spell the name of such an important author! His name is Edgar Allan Poe. Also, so far as I know, "Annabel Lee" is not considered the last poem he wrote. He handed it off to be published before his death but it was not published until two days after he died. The timing of publication and composition, nevertheless, are two very different things.

According to the Poe Society of Baltimore, both "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells" are alternately given the status of Poe's last poem; but "Annabel Lee" and "Sonnet to My Mother" are considered the last composed.